This is a block making machine, designed by Marc Isambard Brunel to make wooden pulley blocks for the sailing navy. A 74-gun ship needed 922 blocks and it was estimated that the navy used 100,000 ...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to stop his sentencing in the New York hush-money case, scheduled for Friday.. The court, in a rationale for its order ...